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Tales From The Riverbank

Mid-February, and a gorgeous day for following the river as far as we can through the snow-drifts. The main roads have been cleared and the conditions are good albeit with temperatures well below zero C.

Fnjóskadalur, an agricultural valley in Þingeyjarsveit north-eastern #Iceland. Fnjóská, a popular salmon angling river and the longest spring-fed river in Iceland, runs through it.

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A photo of a snow scene with a river curving through the foreground. A range of mountains fills the horizon and disappears into a valley behind another foreground peak at centre right. The sky above has scattered cloud but is deep cold blue and cyan. The sunlight is from the right. The snow lying on every surface is completely untrammelled.
A photo of a snow scene, and the same river except this time in close-up. The untouched snow on the riverbanks is shining and silky, long shadows are being thrown from the right by strong sunlight. A line of mountains on the horizon has a cloud-bank above it. The river water is dark and has large areas completely frozen, most of which are also covered in snow.
A photo of a snow scene, under a cloudy but blue sky. The horizon is hilly and a farm building in the centre right lends scale. The foreground is a smooth snow-field, its surface slightly pitted and with dark areas of rock showing through. On the right, in a depression, part of the river is visible as a few slightly thawed patches next to a frozen and snowed-over surface. The end is a river bank so this would be a pool when thawed.
A photo of a snow scene but, this time, from further away from the river so that its surface can't be seen. The horizon is obscured by large mountainsides and only a small window of blue sky is visible top left. The foreground is a fenced field. Between this and the mountains are beautifully sculpted silken snowdrifts, lit from almost directly behind the viewpoint. The snow is clean and untouched, shadows on its surface are the only sign that it's folded into gorgeous convoluted pleats.
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Volcanic waters

Mid-March, and Seljalandsfoss is still dropping from Eyjafjallajökull even though the temperature has been consistently below zero C for days.

Near the left side is Gljúfrabúi, the waterfall behind a large boulder and within a canyon.

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A winter photo of a mountainside of dark rock covered in ice. The foreground is withered brown vegetation dotted with snow. Near the base of the cliffside, the rockface abruptly flattens into a vertical face, it's foot debris-strewn. Three waterfalls can be seen; on the left is the top of a cascade but the base is hidden, left of centre is a small cascade, and near the centre is an impressive horsetail falls.
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Sunset Serenity

Beautiful Beauly Firth, near Inverness in north-eastern #Scotland at 9pm on a lovely July day.

In the distance is Ben Wyvis (meaning "Awesome Mountain"), topped by Glas Leathad Mòr, a Munro of 1046 metres/3432 feet.

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A photo of a wide lake under a cyan sky, with scattered and puffy clouds which the sunset is tinting to shades of peach and pink. On the horizon is a line of dark mountains, the foreground is the lake's gravelly edge. The slightly ruffled water is reflecting the sky, and a bird is flying away at eye level. It's calm and serene.
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Obscured By Clouds

A brief glimpse of the odd, stumpy structure that crowns the pinnacle.

¹Hvannadalshnjúkur - at 2110 meters/6922.5 feet, this is the highest peak in #Iceland and part of the Öræfajökull volcanic system. In the foreground are Skarð and Dyrhamar.

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#MountainsMonday #DailyPhoto #WeatherPhotography #LandscapePhotography

A photo of a mountaintop under a cloudy sky with large cyan patches. There's strong sunlight from the right. The foreground is uneven and dark rock ridges, bare of snow and ice but with unusual vertical fingers of rock sticking up from the edge. Behind this is a wide expanse of cracked and sculpted ice, clean and white with blue shadows. In the centre of the shot is the pinnacle. On the right it is an unusual twin stump of rock, almost like a small butte with a distinct ridge running away from it. On the left is a humped mound, and this appears to be the highest point.
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Summer Stillness

Stopping at the roadside to enjoy the tranquillity; the soft breeze rippling the water, the sound of distant birds, the wildflowers in the muddy meadows.

Driving down the old dirt road towards Hrútafjörður, the Vatnsnes peninsular jutting into the still waters before us. Húnaflói, north-western #Iceland

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A photo of a landscape containing a large body of water. The foreground is a grey dirt road through dark grassland, puddles of standing rainwater are dotted throughout. Beyond that is the shining water of a huge fjord beneath a lightly clouded cyan sky. Heavier cloud is visible on the horizon, just above distant misty mountains.
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#introduction
Hey everyone!

Mo here, onward and upwards as is always the hope and desire.

I'm a fairly atypical Granny living in #Scotland, with an #Iceland photography obsession. I used to do games graphics many moons ago. I love weather photography, long slow walks getting slower due to stuff, my wonderful sons and my lovely patient partner.

Here's a drop-dead gorgeous shot to start this. Lómagnúpur in southern #Iceland.

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A photo of a beautiful mountaintop draped in misty cloud. Below, in the foreground, are scarves of mist above a dark ground surface. The peak of the mountain is peeking out between layers of vapour -above is a glorious crown of lenticular clouds tinted by the sunset into shades of orange, peach and grey. The sky above is clearing to cyan.
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Liquid Refreshment

February, and this gorgeous waterfall with its turquoise water and the surrounding black basalt column teeth is a true jewel of nature. The drive and hike were long and difficult but worth every step through knee-deep snow to reach this beauty.

20 meter/65 feet tall Aldeyjarfoss in Skjálfandafljót river at the northern part of the Sprengisandur Highland Road in the Highlands of #Iceland

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A photo of a horsetail waterfall on the left of a frozen landscape. The water in the pool below the chute is turquoise and foam is churning across the surface. The cascade is surrounded by near vertical columns of black basalt, and the white ice between them is highlighting the joints in the structure. Around the base, the spray has created large blocks of cyan ice capped with snow. The crest of the cascade is over-topped by a delicate arch of ice, and the river feeding the falls can be seen at the top left to centre of the shot.
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Early Flight

A storm was brewing and this would be the only chance to bring in surface mail and essentials before the strong winds took hold of the entire area. It was already gusting strongly. Watching the pilots complete this landing on a small airstrip surrounded by the water of Pollurinn was tense, to say the least.

10am in mid-November and a plane is coming in to land in Akureyri, north-eastern #Iceland

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A photo of a cloudy sky with snow-capped mountains in the lower part of the shot. In the top right quarter is a small aircraft, two propellers are visible. The clouds behind it are lit by the rising sun with tones of orange and yellow, and there is heavier and darker cloud behind it but most of the sky is quite clear. The mountain tops are displaying spindrift snow from the summits, a sign of strong winds.
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Blue Shadows

Mid-February and another lovely cold but clear day in north-western #iceland

This is Reykjafoss at just after midday, the sunlight almost from the south hardly warming its frozen cascades.

A beautiful and peaceful place.

When I took this shot it was my partner's birthday and mine would be tomorrow, so we're celebrating our special days with a long and relaxed holiday driving around Iceland.

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A photo of a landscape. In the centre of the shot is a pretty waterfall with multiple small drops, most of them seemingly completely frozen. In reality the water is still flowing beneath the ice but that isn't apparent from this shot. The surrounding rock surface is honey-coloured, the vegetation is brown and withered and the horizontal surfaces are covered in snow. The low light from the left is casting long shadows across the falls making the water and ice seem blue, and the brown rock almost black.
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Red Sky At Night...

September 2014, and the Holuhraun eruption of Bárðarbunga is well under way. We stopped for the night at a farm to the south of Vatnajökull glacier, and the eruption plume filled the sky.

At 18:45 when the sun set, the afterglow caused by volcanic ejecta - oxides of sulphur and thin clouds of tiny sulphuric acid droplets lofted into the stratosphere - yielded lurid but beautiful colours.

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A photo of a mountain range, with the surface of a glacier smoothing the areas between the peaks. Three ice tongues can be seen dropping to ground level. The foreground is brown vegetation and farm fences. The sky is full of odd streaked shapes, not quite cloud as you would expect to see it but vog from an eruption. This gas and vapour is being coloured by the sunset to strong orange and bluish-grey, while the horizon line to the left is a bright yellow patch and to the right is a strangely layered orange and grey region. It's quite otherworldly.
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May The Road Rise Up To Meet You

Late November, and the sunlight is breaking through the snow clouds ahead of us.
It's going to be another beautiful day.

Gilsárdalur valley, leading towards Miðaftanshnjúkur (919m/3015ft) and Örnólfsfjall (891m/2923ft.)
Fáskrúðsfjörður in Fjarðabyggð, eastern #Iceland.

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A snow scene, viewed from inside a car on an icy road that is about to crest a small hill. There's a fence line following the side of the road for a short distance and on the left is a rocky hillside. Both sides of the road are lined by tall snow-poles. The sky is grey and full of heavy cloud, but there is sunlight from the left of the shot. Ahead are two prominent mountain peaks with a long glacial valley curving down, with a water-cut gorge between them. It almost looks as if the road continues over the hill and up the side of the mountain.
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Summer And Winter

Rjúkandi, a lovely and very accessible waterfall by the side of Route 1, the main ring road around the country.

Múlaþing in eastern #Iceland, approaching the town of Egilsstaðir.

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A photo of a white waterfall, dropping down a honey-coloured rockface. Strong sunlight from the left is casting shadows across the multiple steps along the way down. The sky above is clear cyan.
A photo of a waterfall, dropping down an ice-covered rockface. The scene doesn't display any light source although the sky above seems to be clear cyan. Deep snow is piled up on either side of the cascade.
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Another fresh image specifically for #WaterWednesday. It took some drive to find this spot since Gold Coast is scarce for nice rocks and rock platforms. I have always enjoyed #water action, whooshes and splashes.

I used Hoya ND8 for this shot.

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an evening seascape with dramatic skies and black and orange rocks with some water flowing over the rocks from the incoming wave
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Organ Pipes

Early March, an accumulation of massive icicles bathed by spray and covered in snow.

A heavy snowstorm has just passed, and Gullfoss - the "Golden Falls" - is heavily iced. Fed by Langjökull glacier, Hvítá - "White River" - plunges 11 metres (36 ft) over rocks to a central platform area before dropping another 21m (69ft) into a chasm.
This structure was on the eastern bank of the top cascade.

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A photo of the base of a waterfall. Falling water can be seen in the top left of the image, and there is an open channel with flowing water between two impressive ice walls. On the left, a few dark rocks are visible between the frozen areas but otherwise every surface is covered. The water has solidified into long fingers of cyan icicles and the tops have a deep coating of snow.
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Skylight

Patiently we waited in the cold and blustery darkness, hoping that the clouds didn't increase, hoping that the forecast was accurate, hoping that we were lucky.
The green lady didn't disappoint us.

The #aurora dances above Lómagnúpur mountain and the black sands of Skeiðarársandur - the largest outwash plain in the world - in south-eastern #Iceland.

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A photo of a bleak landscape cut by water into stripes of channels. On the horizon is the dark silhouette of a craggy mountain. The sky above it is mostly clear but with some small clouds, and a few stars are visible. A bright green beam is just above the mountain, and more can be seen nearer to the viewer and higher in the sky. The ground surface is tinged slightly green by the brightness of the aurora.
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Sunbeams

A dreary July day in the south-east of #Iceland. It's been drizzling and raining and, at 19:30 as the sun was going down, some small breaks appeared in the clouds.

What seemed to be a fruitless day for photography was crowned by a lovely display of sunbeams, highlighting Vatnajökull and its glacier tongues, and piercing the ground level mists gathering around the peaks.

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A photo of mountains, with the top of a wide glacier visible between them. The foreground is a dark surface, and a car can be seen travelling into the frame from the left. The sky is overcast and some mist has gathered over the lower slopes, hiding large parts of the glacier tongues. Just left of top centre, a window has opened in the cloud and sunbeams are streaming through to illuminate the fog below.
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Flat Calm

The summer sky reflects in the near-mirror surface of the fjord. The soft breeze gently ruffles a few patches, but the water-birds are unperturbed.

Late August, Hvalfjörður in western #Iceland.

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A photo of a landscape containing a large body of water. The shores are green with vegetation and, on the nearest bank on the left of the shot, sheep can be seen lying in the grasses. A road winds away from left centre and towards the horizon. A promontory juts into the water and a few cottages are nestled upon it. The sky is summer cyan except for a few thin clouds. The water surface is reflecting this, apart from a small area where a breeze has ruffled the surface. Nearby, dots of birds can just be seen, and the float of a crab pot.
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Snow Mountain Sunset

Mid-November, and by 16:30 the sun has set. The fading light splashes strong colour across the sky and reduces the shadows to shades of dark blue.

Snæfell - the eponymous 'snow mountain' - volcano at the head of Lagarfljót, a huge elongated lake that drains into the sea in eastern #Iceland.

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A photo of a mountain under a sky filled with streaked cloud. The sunset has tinted this in strong shades of ochre, orange and yellow. A beard of cloud is streaming from the top of the volcano, and close inspection reveals a snow cap and patches of ice down the flanks. The foreground is a large body of water, picking up a small reflection of the colours above, and the humped outlines of hills on either shore. These are in darkening shades of blue.
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'Neath Clouds And Northern Lights

On a windy February night, we waited for the skies to clear and the show to begin.
The farm buildings of Grenivík provided some small ground level lights, while the stars danced a duet with the #aurora. Even the approaching snow clouds couldn't hide the beauty completely.

Eyjafjörður in north-eastern #Iceland.

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A photo taken at night, with many stars visible above a heavy grey cloud bank on the horizon. Below it, scattered lights of buildings dot the snow-covered ground. High in the sky is a gorgeous green block of light, partially hidden behind clouds. It twists and swirls in streaks and shafts, some almost vertical, some almost horizontal. At the lower edge, the green contains a hint of red and yellow.
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Clutter

Remnants of icebergs floating near the shore of the lake.

These exquisitely carved slivers of ice once fell as snowflakes,
which piled up atop a mountain,
which then became part of a glacier,
which calved into the water,
which the tides and the winds grounded here,
where it began to melt slowly
for me to find.

Jökulsárlón lagoon, mid-November, Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður in south-eastern #Iceland.

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A photo of a water surface softly sunlit from the right, clean turquoise water with odd pieces of ice floating in it. Most of the shards are smoothly sculpted by being rolled in the water as they melted. Some are broken pieces, but even these have rounded edges. Some clear water is visible and a larger, central chunk has a small pool within its curves. Rings on the surface of the water show that it's raining gently. The ice and the water are all a gorgeous shade of cyan.
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